The state of travel tech. Nasdaq CEO. Amazon drone patent.
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We announced the 2018 Artificial Intelligence 100 last month, and Fortune Magazine just did a great graphic and feature on the companies (see The Blurb for the article).
If you are an AI company that wants to be featured in our newsletter to 376,000+ and get media attention from great publications like Fortune for free, update or add your profile here.
If you have a PR firm that hasn’t asked you to update your profile, it’s not doing its job btw.
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With travel tech startups seeing record investment in 2017, we look into the state of travel tech, from the sector’s most active VCs to the steps online travel agencies are taking to stay relevant.
The easy button
We’ve added a few enhancements to our Market Map Maker, including smart image positioning, which will help you make beautiful market maps faster (without spending all that time mindlessly positioning images).
We’re also making you look good in meetings with presentation mode, which allows you to more seamlessly present your maps to your colleagues.
Friedman’s already put her tech-driven strategy to work through acquisitions like Sybenetix (an AI player) and the $705M acquisition of analytics player eVestment.
She’ll also be the Nasdaq CEO who decides what to do about ICOs and other fintech disruptors. We look forward to hearing more from her about how she plans to drive Nasdaq into the future.
Join us for the conversation at the Future of Fintech. Get your ticket today.
Collision avoidance
A recently granted Amazon patent details technology that uses sensors and wireless communication to facilitate autonomous air control for drones.
Reading recs
Morning Brew is a daily newsletter that covers a great assortment of business news, including a quick, digestible snapshot of the public markets and summaries of the top news from Silicon Valley to Wall Street.
We rounded up 7 startups fighting fake news, from AI-powered fact-checking to blockchain-backed content distribution.
A-ha! moments: GM & Cruise
In March 2016, GM bought autonomous car innovator, Cruise Automation, for north of $1B. A year and a half later, we wondered how the combination of the two was working out.
During a fireside chat with Bloomberg’s Sarah Frier at the CB Insights A-ha! Conference in December, Kyle Vogt, Co-founder & CEO of Cruise, said he’s gained an appreciation for how the blending of GM’s and Cruise Automation’s strengths adds up to a significant competitive advantage.
You can watch that part of their conversation here.
P.S. In one week (Jan 16), we’re launching our CPG Insights newsletter, focused on the latest in consumer packaged goods. Sign up now to recieve the first edition.
P.P.S. If you want to nominate a speaker for The Future of Fintech, you can do so here. Please note that the bar is extremely high and because of the number of nominations we receive, we cannot respond to everyone individually.
